{"id":850,"date":"2006-08-05T10:39:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T09:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/05\/transferred-from-hosting-unlimited-to-hostgator\/"},"modified":"2006-08-06T01:02:51","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T00:02:51","slug":"transferred-from-hosting-unlimited-to-hostgator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/05\/transferred-from-hosting-unlimited-to-hostgator\/","title":{"rendered":"Transferred from Hosting-Unlimited to HostGator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s been pretty quite on my Blog lately and that&#8217;s because I had been transferring all my files and databases from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hosting-unlimited.net\/\">Hosting-Unlimited<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hostgator.com\">HostGator<\/a> because though I have been with Hosting-Unlimited for 420 days now and I&#8217;m still quite happy to host small test sites with them that are not so important, I had been having lots of downtime amongst other things lately with this Blog and it wasn&#8217;t feasible enough to keep it hosted here as I was losing quite a lot of visitors.<\/p>\n<p>I guess you could say that the 4 main reasons for leaving were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The site would be down nearly all the time I checked<\/li>\n<li>Emails could not be sent or received at times.<\/li>\n<li>The bandwidth usage was not updating sometimes in cpanel<\/li>\n<li>And the Server HDD would be full and I couldn&#8217;t upload via FTP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I sent support tickets many times for these issues and the issues were normally resolved in a short space of time, but I would find myself re-opening the support tickets more and more lately because the problems were getting worse.<\/p>\n<p>And if you have to take into account whether it would have been fixed or not if you weren&#8217;t around to send a support ticket, for example Eric Cheung a Windows Live Butterfly took me to the Apple store in London on Thursday and when I checked my site on a Mac to see what it looked like was I disappointed to find that my Site and Blog was down once again, of course there and then wasn&#8217;t the time to be sending support tickets so I unfortunately left it as is knowing that my site being down then was the last straw for me having my Blog hosted at Hosting-Unlimited and that as soon as I could I would finish the last transfer batch of files and databases from Hosting-Unlimited to my new server at HostGator.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s basically why I have swapped hosting companies, even while I am writing this very blog entry is the server at Hosting-Unlimited having problems with server load:<\/p>\n<p>Server Load 3.76 (4 cpus) (RED ALERT)<br \/>\nDisk sda3 (\/) 96 %\u00a0 (RED ALERT)<\/p>\n<p>Yet if I check HostGator where my site is now located everything is fine, so I&#8217;m very happy that I have now moved because though it&#8217;s costing me a lot more money than it was with Hosting-Unlimited 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